Definition of "fowler"

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Psalms 124:7

Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]

1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], Act I, scene i, page 4